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What is the new DHS deportation operation in Illinois and why was it launched?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston. The Department of Homeland Security is launching a new deportation operation in Illinois. The agency says it was prompted by the death of a woman who was killed in a hit and run involving a Guatemalan national. The operation is targeting what the administration calls criminal illegal aliens who moved to Illinois under the state sanctuary policies. NPR's Kat Laundstorff reports Governor J.B. Pritzker has
Pritzkar hasn't said anything about this DHS announcement yet. In Evanston, uh, that's a sanctuary city that borders the north of Chicago. Mayor Daniel Biss said that local police officers there will be clearly identified, and he's urging residents there to trust those officers. He says that Evanston police officers will not be participating in ICE activity. And he acknowledged that people in his city are understandably frightened right now. And to be clear, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Governor Pritzker have been strongly against both this move and Trump's threats to send in the National Guard to Chicago for what Trump says is out of control crime.
That's MPR's Katlonstorff reporting from Chicago. A Federal Appeals Court has rejected President Trump's appeal of a defamation verdict, leaving him on the hook for millions. NPR's Jacqueline Diaz reports the case stems from remarks Trump made in twenty nineteen, denying assault allegations made by writer E. Jean Carroll.
In twenty nineteen, a jury found that President Trump defamed writer Eugene Carroll and owed her more than eighty million dollars in damages. Trump said Carol was a liar after she went public with her story that the president sexually assaulted her in a dressing room of a Manhattan store in nineteen ninety six. Trump appealed the jury verdict, claiming he is entitled to presidential immunity or at least a new trial. He also claimed the jury's damages were excessive. But an appeals court rejected these claims, saying the jury verdict is fair and reasonable. Jacqueline Diaz NPR News.
The trial of the man charged with trying to assassinate Donald Trump last year began today in Florida. NPR's Greg Allen reports jury selection got underway with Ryan Ruth representing himself in the trial.
A Secret Service agent says he spotted Ryan Ruth holding a rifle near where Trump was golfing at his West Palm Beach Club in September and fired on him.
How are Evanston officials responding to the DHS immigration sweep?
Ruth was arrested a short time later. After Ruth became dissatisfied with his federal public defenders, U.S. District Judge Eileen Cannon granted his request that he represent himself. But in court, as the jury selection process began, she told him questions he wanted to ask about Palestine and a proposal that the U.S. purchase Greenland were politically charged. charged and would not be allowed. She asked him about another question he wanted to ask jurors. If you saw a turtle in the road, would you stop and move it? Ruth agreed to withdraw it. Greg Allen, NPR News, Fort Pierce, Florida.
At the close on Wall Street, the Dow was up one hundred fourteen points, the Nasdaq up ninety eight. This is NPR News. More than a thousand Hollywood figures, including a number of well known actors and filmmakers, have pledged not to work with some Israeli companies in response to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, NPR's Neta Ulibi has more.
The Open Letter was signed by such stars as Emma Stone, Gail Garcia Bernal, Alyssa Milano, Brian Cox, and Alana Glazer, among many others. Filmmakers included Ava Duvernay, Adam McKay, and James Seamus, who used to run Focus Features. The signatories pledge to avoid working with Israeli film institutions, meaning festivals, broadcasters, and production companies that are quote implicated in genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people. The letter defined such complicity as quote, whitewashing or justifying genocide and apartheid, or partnering with the government committing them. The letter was organized by a group called Filmmakers for Palestine. It was modeled after efforts against apartheid in South Africa in the nineteen eighties.
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